{"id":7895,"date":"2025-06-08T08:35:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T12:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=7895"},"modified":"2025-06-08T10:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T14:58:13","slug":"i-didnt-get-into-harvard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2025\/06\/08\/i-didnt-get-into-harvard\/","title":{"rendered":"I Didn\u2019t Get into Harvard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thin Envelope<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Full disclosure:&nbsp;&nbsp;I didn\u2019t get into Harvard.&nbsp;&nbsp;I first tried as a high school senior.&nbsp;&nbsp;My grades were good but not great (enough).&nbsp;&nbsp;But I did have some great (enough) standardized test scores, particularly in American History.&nbsp;&nbsp;I led our Ohio State High School Social Studies State Championship Team (go Wyoming!!!). And I had a great interview when we visited the campus, so I hoped that, combined with my \u201cnon-academics\u201d, it might be enough to push me over the edge.&nbsp;&nbsp;After all, Harvard could choose all the \u201c4.0\u2019s\u201d they wanted.&nbsp;&nbsp;Maybe they needed to academically \u201cdiversify\u201d their incoming class of 1974.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And for a brief twenty-four hours, I thought it worked.&nbsp;&nbsp;My guidance counselor took me out of class to tell me that her \u201ccontact\u201d at Harvard admissions said I was \u201cin\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;For that moment, I was literally walking on clouds.&nbsp;&nbsp;But the clouds disappeared the next afternoon, when I received the desperately thin envelope with the two paragraph letter on Harvard Admissions stationary.&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cThanks for applying, but you did not make the class.&nbsp;&nbsp;Good luck in your future endeavors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sure, there might have been grounds for appeal, but I was seventeen, and if they didn\u2019t want me I didn\u2019t want them, I guess.&nbsp;&nbsp;I moved onto other institutions, ultimately visiting Denison University in Granville, Ohio, on an October day with the leaves in full fall bloom.&nbsp;&nbsp;They absolutely wanted me, and I was happy to oblige.&nbsp;&nbsp;As the saying goes, \u201cno regrets\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">No Regrets<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, maybe a few.&nbsp;&nbsp;Denison led to teaching, and Watkins Memorial High School, but three years into my career the school district was in financial trouble. I decided to go to law school (Dad said \u201cIt\u2019s about time!!\u201d).&nbsp;&nbsp;And I took one more shot at Harvard, this time with a much better college grade-point, and more great standardized test scores.&nbsp;&nbsp;The \u201cquirk\u201d was that I was also a three-year teacher and coach.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, again, I got that thin letter with the embossed crimson symbol.&nbsp;&nbsp;I went to the University of Cincinnati Law School, and after the first semester made my \u201cfinal decision\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;I came back to Watkins, to teach and coach, and made a career of it.&nbsp;&nbsp;Forty-five years later, as the saying still goes, \u201cno regrets\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Best<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why apply to Harvard?&nbsp;&nbsp;Jimmy Carter, entitled his 1975 auto-biography,&nbsp;<em>Why Not the Best&nbsp;<\/em>(he went to Annapolis)<em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em>And long before I joined his campaign, I knew I wanted to try for \u201cthe best\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;Rank universities in the United States based on almost any academic criteria; Harvard is on top.&nbsp;&nbsp;Seven US Presidents went to Harvard including two of my heroes, Franklin D Roosevelt and John F Kennedy (much later, Barack Obama joined that list as well).&nbsp;&nbsp;It is the premiere academic institution in the Nation.&nbsp;&nbsp;So, if you think there\u2019s a \u201cshot\u201d, why not the best?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which is exactly why the Trump Administration takes aim specifically at Harvard.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is the best, the symbol of American excellence in intellectualism.&nbsp;&nbsp;And the \u201cintellectuals\u201d in the MAGA movement (some of whom actually went to Harvard) are following the authoritarian &#8220;playbook&#8221;  to power.&nbsp;&nbsp;One of those \u201cplays\u201d is to create a scapegoat, someone or something to blame for \u201ceverything\u201d that\u2019s wrong with America.&nbsp;&nbsp;One of those scapegoats clearly is the \u201cbrown\u201d people, particularly migrants.&nbsp;&nbsp;They are blamed for everything: higher taxes, medical costs, unemployment, and increasing crime (none of which is actually true).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Money<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the other is American intellectuals, defined by MAGA-world as those who are \u201cwoke\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;Here\u2019s a \u201clower level\u201d thought problem.&nbsp;&nbsp;If intellectuals are \u201cwoke\u201d, and \u201cwoke\u201d is bad, then the highest concentration of intellectuals in the Nation must be the \u201cwoke-ist\u201d, and therefore the \u201cbaddest\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;And where is that located?&nbsp;&nbsp;Cambridge, Massachusetts; the University located on Harvard Square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Trump and his MAGA\/Project 2025 anti-intellectuals can force Harvard to \u201cknuckle-under\u201d, as they were able to do to another premier institution, Columbia University, then they can ultimately control them all.&nbsp;&nbsp;Harvard has the largest private endowment of any university in the Nation, $41 billion.&nbsp;&nbsp;Columbia is 12<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;with $11.57 billion (<a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/fastfacts\/display.asp?id=73\">NCES<\/a>).&nbsp;&nbsp;My Denison has an endowment of $1.1 billion.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It is that endowment that allows universities to have some independence from the Federal money that infiltrates almost every school.&nbsp;&nbsp;The \u201cFed\u201d not only gives research grants, but also controls the ability for students to use Federally based student loans.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Woke is the Enemy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What does MAGA-world want with Harvard?&nbsp;&nbsp;They asked for literal control of the curriculum, a complete reform of admissions policy, a remake of the academic governing structure, and more (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/research-funding\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/04\/Letter-Sent-to-Harvard-2025-04-11.pdf\">Harvard<\/a>).&nbsp;&nbsp;They want to recreate Harvard along the model of MAGA\/Project 2025\u2019s favorite university, Hillsdale College in Michigan.&nbsp;&nbsp;Hillsdale is the bastion of not just conservative thought, but the home to the anti-intellectual reforms of public schools and universities in the United States.&nbsp;&nbsp;Want professors to stop talking about \u201ccontroversial\u201d subjects (Ohio Senate Bill 1)?&nbsp;&nbsp;That came from Hillsdale.&nbsp;&nbsp;Want American History taught like it was in the 1950\u2019s, with no \u201cwoke\u201d civil rights or civil protests or Black contributions?&nbsp;&nbsp;Check out Hillsdale\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/k12.hillsdale.edu\/Curriculum\/Hillsdale-K12-American-History\/\">1776 Project<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If \u201cwoke\u201d is the enemy, Harvard is at the core and the ultimate scapegoat.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is the university most financially capable of surviving a Federal \u201cstorm\u201d of cuts and attacks.&nbsp;&nbsp;If Trump can knock off Harvard, then the entire academic world must \u201ccome to heel\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that should sound familiar.&nbsp;&nbsp;Authoritarians like Vladimir Putin, use the full power of the government to stifle any opposing views.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sure, Harvard administrators aren\u2019t falling out of high windows, yet.&nbsp;&nbsp;But this is a dangerous step away from what American freedom and democracy means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thin Envelope Full disclosure:&nbsp;&nbsp;I didn\u2019t get into Harvard.&nbsp;&nbsp;I first tried as a high school senior.&nbsp;&nbsp;My grades were good but not great (enough).&nbsp;&nbsp;But I did have some great (enough) standardized test scores, particularly in American History.&nbsp;&nbsp;I led our Ohio State High School Social Studies State Championship Team (go Wyoming!!!). 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